Cuba News

Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reported to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, nearly three weeks after agreeing to a $25 million, five-year contract.

Jean Washburn Hernandez died peacefully on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at her home in Essex Meadows in Essex, Connecticut.

Approximately 50,000 patients get some kind of infections in Cuban hospitals; 16,500 could die from that cause.

Despite the CELAC spectacle in Havana, Cuba the Castro regime's outlaw credentials were reaffirmed in a damning report from the United Nations widely reported, on its role in illegal arms smuggling to its ideological soul mate: North Korea.

As remuneration in the British Columbia public sector skyrockets, we bring you our annual database of who is making what in B.C.'s public service.

Twenty years ago Murphys Creek Theatre presented its first production in the Black Bart Playhouse.

Dear Sir: Two of my father's most used sayings were "The Lord pays debts without money" and, when referring to business, private finances and personal life, he said, "A little well managed is far better than a lot badly managed."

After Cuba's revolution in 1959, Havana squandered what was arguably its best opportunity to force the United States to abandon its lease of a naval base at Guantanamo: a legal doctrine that allows a nation to terminate a treaty if a fundamental change occurs in the circumstances that led to it.

The "hard currency collection stores" [as the government itself named them], have started accepting both of the two Cuban currencies.

This ideal, however, is ignored -- even intentionally sabotaged -- far too often.

New Guantanamo Bay U.S. prison guidelines describe hunger striking detainees as undergoing "long term non-religious fasting," a copy of the document obtained by Reuters shows.

The Cuban Communist Party said heroine Melba Hernandez, a member of the party's Central Committee and parliamentary deputy passed away March 9, from complications linked to Diabetes Mellitus, a disease she had suffered from during years.

Regis High School won't be taking any chances this spring; it will be going with a sure thing when it presents its spring musical, "Guys and Dolls."

I feel moved to respond to the article written by Anton E Edmunds, titled 'Cuba - A growing threat to the Caribbean?' in the Jamaica Observer edition off Monday, February 17, 2014.

A lawyer for a group of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba is accusing the military of torture.

Cuba's government refused to identify the people or entities involved in a weapons shipment to North Korea last year that violated a U.N. arms embargo, and might have violated the embargo twice more in 2012, according to a U.N. report made public Tuesday.

In one way or another, Cuba is taking note of the street protests occurring these days in Venezuela.

Huntington Theatre Company continues its 2013-2014 Season with playwright-in-residence Melinda Lopez 's latest play, the stirring new drama Becoming Cuba.

A detainee at Guantanamo Bay is challenging force-feeding practices at the facility imposed on prisoners who go on hunger strikes.

Fidel Castro courts newly elected Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt in Jan. 1959.